Overview
A journey through the entrails of the luxury hotel business 'Something strange occurs to guests as soon as they check in. Even if in real life they are perfectly well-mannered, decent people with proper balanced relationships, as soon as they spin through the revolving hotel doors the normal rules of behaviour no longer seem to apply.' All of the following is true.Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. All the anecdotes, the stories, the characters, the situations, the highs, the lows, the scams, the drugs, the misery, the love, the death and the insanity are exactly as was told by Anonymous - someone who has spent his whole career working in hotels at the heart of London's luxury hotel industry. However, for legal reasons, the stories now take place in a fictitious hotel known as Hotel Babylon. More than a decade is compressed into a day. Everything else is as it should be. The rich spend money, the hotel makes money and the chambermaids still fight the bellboys over a two-pound coin.It's just another twenty-four hours in an expensive London hotel.
Full Product Details
Author: Imogen Edwards-Jones
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Imprint: Corgi Books
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 12.60cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.242kg
ISBN: 9780552151467
ISBN 10: 0552151467
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 04 July 2005
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Informative, disgusting and utterly fascinating Closer Reading Hotel Babylon is like mainlining Popbitch Metro A 5-Star read. Imogen Edwards-Jones takes readers on a brilliant romp that's just as luxurious as the presidential suite and definitely a whole lot funnier -- Candace Bushnell Makes shock revelation after shock revelation Daily Mail Fascinating Daily Telegraph
Informative, disgusting and utterly fascinating * Closer * Reading Hotel Babylon is like mainlining Popbitch * Metro * A 5-Star read. Imogen Edwards-Jones takes readers on a brilliant romp that's just as luxurious as the presidential suite and definitely a whole lot funnier -- Candace Bushnell Makes shock revelation after shock revelation * Daily Mail * Fascinating * Daily Telegraph *
'Informative, disgusting and utterly fascinating' Closer. 'Reading Hotel Babylon is like mainlining Popbitch' Metro.
Fascinating * Daily Telegraph * Makes shock revelation after shock revelation * Daily Mail * A 5-Star read. Imogen Edwards-Jones takes readers on a brilliant romp that's just as luxurious as the presidential suite and definitely a whole lot funnier -- Candace Bushnell Reading Hotel Babylon is like mainlining Popbitch * Metro * Informative, disgusting and utterly fascinating * Closer *
Author Information
Imogen Edwards-Jones is the co-author of the bestselling Hotel Babylon, Air Babylon and Fashion Babylon as well as author of The Stork Club and The Taming of Eagles. Her fiction includes My Canape Hell, Shagpile, The Wendy House and Tuscany for Beginners. Her new book, Beach Babylon, is now available from Bantam Press. Imogen lives in west London with her husband and their baby daughter. Anonymous is the manager of a luxurious central London hotel.
